And Behold, It Was Very Good

In the margin of R. Meir's Torah scroll, at the verse "And behold, it was very (meod) good" (Gen. 1:31), there was found written: "And behold, death (mos) was very good."

R. Samuel bar Nachman said: While perched on my grandfather's shoulder, coming up by way of Beth Shean from my own town to Kefar Chanan, I heard R. Simeon ben Eleazar expounding from a teacher's chair in the name of R. Meir: "And behold, it was very good"--and behold, death was very good

Genesis Rabbah 9:5